Economics professor Harvey Rosen was brought into the fray of election-year presidential politics this week, when he told the Weekly Standard that he thought president Barack Obama’s campaign had mischaracterized his research.
Local community leaders criticized a state bill supported by the University that would give the University the right to develop its own land as it sees fit. The discussion took place at a public forum Tuesday night at Borough Hall.The bill would allow private colleges like Princeton to pursue development projects without the approval of local zoning boards. The bill was approved by the State Senate in June and is currently awaiting a hearing before the State Assembly’s Higher Education Committee.
Following a USG referendum last spring encouraging the University to invest its endowment in “socially responsible ways,” the Princeton Coalition for Endowment Responsibility is requesting that the University form a committee to monitor its $17.1 billion endowment.
Merik Mulcahy ’13 used the Moving and Storage Agency this summer to store his couch, which he estimated was worth about $300. But a week after he returned to campus, the couch still had not been delivered. He called the agency to ask when it would arrive, but he was told by the agency that all the couches it stored had already been delivered.
The number of student disciplinary infractions decreased by about 10 percent last school year, according to the latest Discipline Report released by the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students on Friday. The report recorded all student infractions from July 2011 to July 2012.
The University’s oldest living alumnus, Malcolm Warnock ’25, died on Tuesday at the age of 107, according to Princeton Alumni Weekly. On eight separate occasions, Warnock led the P-Rade avt Reunions and carried the Class of 1923 cane, which is bestowed on the most senior returning graduate.
The USG’s student group funding branch may have violated the USG constitution by approving funding for two projects without receiving appropriate approval from the student government.
Former president of the University John Maclean received a letter from a concerned parent in September 1861. Joseph Casey’s son, Isaac, had just been expelled from the University — then known as the College of New Jersey — for dousing a southern student under a pump on campus.“You can no more keep loyal and disloyal students together in the College of New Jersey, without producing collision and disturbance, than you can bring fire and powder together without producing ignition and explosion,” Casey’s letter to Maclean read.
Out of 74 female students who registered for sorority rush, more than 50 were offered bids to Princeton’s three Panhellenic sororities.
Coming from a Korean family that was not financially well-off, former Korean prime minister Un-Chan Chung GS ’78 managed to attend — and eventually lead — the number-one ranked Korean university. Later, he received a Ph.D. from one of America’s best as well: Princeton.
Elaine Leong ’13 and Edward Choi ’14 have published a book telling the personal story of an economics Ph.D. candidate that they met three years ago in the basement of Fisher Hall. The book has elicited favorable reviews from prominent members of the University community, including University president Shirley Tilghman.
The 32 candidates running for Freshman Class Council received a unique email the night of Oct. 1 from Baxter Ingram ’16, the administrator of the Class of 2016 Facebook page. “Lock in your candidacy with this opportunity!” Ingram’s email read.
In the midst of taking a year off from the University, Catharine Bellinger ’13 and Alexis Morin ’13 were honored by Time magazine as two of the nation’s top education activists. Now, in addition to trying to build and sustain a national movement, they’re working toward completing their undergraduate degrees.
One current and one former University employee have separately sued the University in U.S. District Court alleging employment discrimination, but both cases may face dismissal, according to federal court records.
The University has postponed a lecture by Chinese artist and government dissident Ai Weiwei, who designed the sculptures currently on display outside Robertson Hall. The lecture was scheduled for Oct. 10, but Ai will be unable to travel outside China due to the government’s continued hold on his passport, the artist explained in interviews with The New York Times and The Daily Princetonian last month.
With the add/drop period concluded and class rosters settled, students can do little beyond reflect on whether they chose the right courses during the first two weeks of school — unless they want to pay the $45 fee to drop a course.But at other schools with formal shopping periods, the add/drop period is significantly longer and provides students with an opportunity to sample classes more freely. Based on student survey results, the USG is recommending that Princeton take steps to move in that direction.
Women speak less in groups when outnumbered, according to a new study by politics professor Tali Mendelberg published in the American Political Science Review.
Throughout her tenure as University president, Shirley Tilghman has frequently planned campus-wide projects that span the course of many years. One of her most ambitious long-term projects — the development and expansion of the University’s arts programs — took quite a while and still isn’t finished.Tilghman, set to retire this June after 12 years, has spent the last eight expanding the University’s commitment to the arts by building the Lewis Center for the Arts and pushing through the controversial Arts and Transit Neighborhood.
The new keyless locks installed in all undergraduate dorms record the times and locations of all attempts to open them using a University ID card.
In an experiment to revamp the freshman advising system, the Office of the Dean of the College is piloting a program that integrates the academic experience of freshman seminars with first-year advising.Six of the 48 classes offered through the Freshman Seminar Program have been selected to participate in the program in which freshman seminar professors also serve as academic advisers for their students.
